US Govt complicit in Bank of America homeowner abuse - Atheist Nexus2015-08-02T23:24:39Zhttp://atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/us-govt-complicit-in-bank-of-america-homeowner-abuse?groupUrl=politics-economics-and-religion&commentId=2182797%3AComment%3A2163324&xg_source=activity&groupId=2182797%3AGroup%3A1787843&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThank you, Ruth, for this dis…tag:atheistnexus.org,2013-02-14:2182797:Comment:21633242013-02-14T00:03:27.072Ztom sarbeckhttp://atheistnexus.org/profile/TomSarbeck
<p>Thank you, Ruth, for this discussion and your documenting it.</p>
<p>...all experience has shown that people are more disposed to <strong>tolerate</strong>, while evils are <strong>tolerable</strong>, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which <strong>we</strong> are accustomed.</p>
<p>Please don't fault my modernizing the Declaration's "suffer" and replacing its "they" with "we".</p>
<p>I hope to make as clear as I can my beliefs: America's founders in 1787 understood human…</p>
<p>Thank you, Ruth, for this discussion and your documenting it.</p>
<p>...all experience has shown that people are more disposed to <strong>tolerate</strong>, while evils are <strong>tolerable</strong>, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which <strong>we</strong> are accustomed.</p>
<p>Please don't fault my modernizing the Declaration's "suffer" and replacing its "they" with "we".</p>
<p>I hope to make as clear as I can my beliefs: America's founders in 1787 understood human frailties and designed a government that takes advantage of them, and we either fix or live with the results.</p>
<p>In the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton (the rich and well born should govern) and James Madison (a government to protect the opulent minority from the majority) made their intentions clear. A few delegates protested but were a minority.</p>
<p>To read of the next bailout I know of, search Wikipedia for Yazoo-related land fraud.</p>
<p>Skipping much to bring this discussion into our times, I tell all who will listen that a Demo administration lied us into a war in Viet Nam, a Repub administration lied us in a war in Iraq, and 9/11 was payback for decades of American Middle Eastern foreign policy.</p>
<p>A few honorably discharged war veterans I know, including Yours Truly, refuse to pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth. I tell people "When you're ready to pledge allegiance to the Constitution, let's talk." (Yeah, those two words are part of my reason.)</p>
<p>I also rant in support of a national initiative and referendum. About half of the states have them. I know Arizona's justification best; statehood backers saw the corruption in Eastern states and wanted to prevent it in their Arizona.</p>
<p>Please don't ask me to explain today's Arizona; when I lived and was politically active there, I repeated the line, "In Phoenix, psychology is a communist plot." If you've time, search Wikipedia for "Don Bolles" the newspaper reporter. The attempts to link the event to the Mafia was BS, intended to protect the guilty.</p>
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